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The “excess” of one substance needed to correct this quantity is often between -2 and +2 and is reported on ABG panels, which show this quantity first. Winters’s formula calculates the expected respiratory compensation in one disturbance to this quantity. Kussmaul breathing may compensate for a high anion gap disturbance in this quantity, which can result from the overproduction of (*) beta-hydroxybutyrate (-5[1])in diabetics. Diarrhea and vomiting cause hypochloremic, hypokalemic derangements in this quantity, whose [emphasize] decrease reduces hemoglobin’s (-5[1])affinity for oxygen in the Bohr effect. Metabolic disturbances to this (-5[1])quantity (-5[1])are offset by adjusting CO2 levels since this quantity is regulated by carbonic anhydrase. For 10 points, the bicarbonate buffer system helps maintain what physiological quantity around 7.4? (10[4]0[3])■END■

ANSWER: blood pH [accept anion gap until read; prompt on pH; prompt on acidity, basicity, or alkalinity; prompt on PaCO2 or carbon dioxide partial pressure by asking “what other quantity does that indicate a change in?”]
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